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.TH SAR 1 "May 13, 2017"
.SH NAME
sar \- system activity reporter
.SH SYNOPSIS
.LP
.nf
\fBsar\fR [\fB-aAbcdgkmpqruvwy\fR] [\fB-o\fR \fIfilename\fR] \fIt\fR [\fIn\fR]
.fi

.LP
.nf
\fBsar\fR [\fB-aAbcdgkmpqruvwy\fR] [\fB-e\fR \fItime\fR] [\fB-f\fR \fIfilename\fR] [\fB-i\fR \fIsec\fR]
     [\fB-s\fR \fItime\fR]
.fi

.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
In the first instance, the \fBsar\fR utility samples cumulative activity
counters in the operating system at \fIn\fR intervals of \fIt\fR seconds, where
\fIt\fR should be \fB5\fR or greater. If \fIt\fR is specified with more than
one option, all headers are printed together and the output can be difficult to
read. (If the sampling interval is less than \fB5\fR, the activity of \fBsar\fR
itself can affect the sample.) If the \fB-o\fR option is specified, it saves
the samples in \fIfilename\fR in binary format. The default value of \fIn\fR is
\fB1\fR.
.sp
.LP
In the second instance, no sampling interval is specified. \fBsar\fR extracts
data from a previously recorded \fIfilename\fR, either the one specified by the
\fB-f\fR option or, by default, the standard system activity daily data file
\fB/var/adm/sa/sa\fIdd\fR\fR for the current day \fIdd\fR. The starting and
ending times of the report can be bounded using the \fB-e\fR and \fB-s\fR
arguments with \fItime\fR specified in the form \fIhh\fR[:\fImm\fR[:\fIss\fR]].
The \fB-i\fR option selects records at \fIsec\fR second intervals. Otherwise,
all intervals found in the data file are reported.
.SH OPTIONS
.LP
The following options modify the subsets of information reported by \fBsar\fR.
.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-a\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Reports use of file access system routines: iget/s, namei/s, dirblk/s
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-A\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Reports all data. Equivalent to \fB-abcdgkmpqruvwy\fR.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-b\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Reports buffer activity:
.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBbread/s, bwrit/s\fR
.ad
.RS 20n
transfers per second of data between system buffers and disk or other block
devices.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBlread/s, lwrit/s\fR
.ad
.RS 20n
accesses of system buffers.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB%rcache, %wcache\fR
.ad
.RS 20n
cache hit ratios, that is, (1\(mibread/lread) as a percentage.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBpread/s, pwrit/s\fR
.ad
.RS 20n
transfers using raw (physical) device mechanism.
.RE

If run in a non-global zone and the pools facility is active, these values
reflect activity on the processors of the processor set of the pool to which
the zone is bound.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-c\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Reports system calls:
.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBscall/s\fR
.ad
.sp .6
.RS 4n
system calls of all types.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBsread/s, swrit/s, fork/s, exec/s\fR
.ad
.sp .6
.RS 4n
specific system calls.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBrchar/s, wchar/s\fR
.ad
.sp .6
.RS 4n
characters transferred by read and write system calls. No incoming or outgoing
\fBexec\fR(2) and \fBfork\fR(2) calls are reported.
.RE

If run in a non-global zone and the pools facility is active, these values
reflect activity on the processors of the processor set of the pool to which
the zone is bound.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-d\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Reports activity for each block device (for example, disk or tape drive) with
the exception of \fBXDC\fR disks and tape drives. When data is displayed, the
device specification \fIdsk-\fR is generally used to represent a disk drive.
The device specification used to represent a tape drive is machine dependent.
The activity data reported is:
.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB%busy, avque\fR
.ad
.RS 27n
portion of time device was busy servicing a transfer request, average number of
requests outstanding during that time.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBread/s, write/s, blks/s\fR
.ad
.RS 27n
number of read/write transfers from or to device, number of bytes transferred
in 512-byte units.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBavwait\fR
.ad
.RS 27n
average wait time in milliseconds.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBavserv\fR
.ad
.RS 27n
average service time in milliseconds.
.RE

For more general system statistics, use \fBiostat\fR(8), \fBsar\fR(8), or
\fBvmstat\fR(8).
.sp
See \fISystem Administration Guide: Advanced Administration\fR for naming
conventions for disks.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-e\fR \fItime\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Selects data up to \fBtime\fR. Default is \fB18:00\fR.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-f\fR \fIfilename\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Uses \fIfilename\fR as the data source for \fBsar\fR. Default is the current
daily data file \fB/var/adm/sa/sa\fR\fIdd.\fR
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-g\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Reports paging activities:
.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBpgout/s\fR
.ad
.RS 12n
page-out requests per second.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBppgout/s\fR
.ad
.RS 12n
pages paged-out per second.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBpgfree/s\fR
.ad
.RS 12n
pages per second placed on the free list by the page stealing daemon.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBpgscan/s\fR
.ad
.RS 12n
pages per second scanned by the page stealing daemon.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB%ufs_ipf\fR
.ad
.RS 12n
the percentage of \fBUFS\fR inodes taken off the freelist by iget which had
reusable pages associated with them. These pages are flushed and cannot be
reclaimed by processes. Thus, this is the percentage of igets with page
flushes.
.RE

If run in a non-global zone and the pools facility is active, these values
reflect activity on the processors of the processor set of the pool to which
the zone is bound.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-i\fR \fIsec\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Selects data at intervals as close as possible to \fIsec\fR seconds.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-k\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Reports kernel memory allocation (KMA) activities:
.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBsml_mem, alloc, fail\fR
.ad
.RS 24n
information about the memory pool reserving and allocating space for small
requests: the amount of memory in bytes \fBKMA\fR has for the small pool, the
number of bytes allocated to satisfy requests for small amounts of memory, and
the number of requests for small amounts of memory that were not satisfied
(failed).
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBlg_mem, alloc, fail\fR
.ad
.RS 24n
information for the large memory pool (analogous to the information for the
small memory pool).
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBovsz_alloc, fail\fR
.ad
.RS 24n
the amount of memory allocated for oversize requests and the number of oversize
requests which could not be satisfied (because oversized memory is allocated
dynamically, there is not a pool).
.RE

.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-m\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Reports message and semaphore activities:
.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBmsg/s, sema/s\fR
.ad
.RS 17n
primitives per second.
.RE

If run in a non-global zone and the pools facility is active, these values
reflect activity on the processors of the processor set of the pool to which
the zone is bound.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-o\fR \fIfilename\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Saves samples in file, \fIfilename\fR, in binary format.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-p\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Reports paging activities:
.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBatch/s\fR
.ad
.RS 11n
page faults per second that are satisfied by reclaiming a page currently in
memory (attaches per second).
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBpgin/s\fR
.ad
.RS 11n
page-in requests per second.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBppgin/s\fR
.ad
.RS 11n
pages paged-in per second.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBpflt/s\fR
.ad
.RS 11n
page faults from protection errors per second (illegal access to page) or
"copy-on-writes".
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBvflt/s\fR
.ad
.RS 11n
address translation page faults per second (valid page not in memory).
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBslock/s\fR
.ad
.RS 11n
faults per second caused by software lock requests requiring physical
\fBI/O\fR.
.RE

If run in a non-global zone and the pools facility is active, these values
reflect activity on the processors of the processor set of the pool to which
the zone is bound.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-q\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Reports average queue length while occupied, and percent of time occupied:
.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBrunq-sz, %runocc\fR
.ad
.RS 20n
Run queue of kernel threads in memory and runnable
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBswpq-sz, %swpocc\fR
.ad
.RS 20n
Swap queue of processes
.RE

.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-r\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Reports unused memory pages and disk blocks:
.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBfreemem\fR
.ad
.RS 12n
average pages available to user processes.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBfreeswap\fR
.ad
.RS 12n
disk blocks available for page swapping.
.RE

.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-s\fR \fItime\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Selects data later than \fBtime\fR in the form \fIhh\fR[:\fImm\fR]. Default is
\fB08:00\fR.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-u\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Reports \fBCPU\fR utilization (the default):
.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB%usr, %sys, %wio, %idle\fR
.ad
.RS 27n
portion of time running in user mode, running in system mode, idle with some
process waiting for block \fBI/O\fR, and otherwise idle.
.RE

If run in a non-global zone and the pools facility is active, these values
reflect activity on the processors of the processor set of the pool to which
the zone is bound.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-v\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Reports status of process, i-node, file tables:
.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBproc-sz, inod-sz, file-sz, lock-sz\fR
.ad
.sp .6
.RS 4n
entries/size for each table, evaluated once at sampling point.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBov\fR
.ad
.sp .6
.RS 4n
overflows that occur between sampling points for each table.
.RE

.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-w\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Reports system swapping and switching activity:
.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBswpin/s, swpot/s, bswin/s, bswot/s\fR
.ad
.sp .6
.RS 4n
number of transfers and number of 512-byte units transferred for swapins and
swapouts (including initial loading of some programs).
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBpswch/s\fR
.ad
.sp .6
.RS 4n
process switches.
.RE

If run in a non-global zone and the pools facility is active, these values
reflect activity on the processors of the processor set of the pool to which
the zone is bound.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB-y\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 15n
Reports TTY device activity:
.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBrawch/s, canch/s, outch/s\fR
.ad
.RS 29n
input character rate, input character rate processed by canon, output character
rate.
.RE

.sp
.ne 2
.na
\fBrcvin/s, xmtin/s, mdmin/s\fR
.ad
.RS 29n
receive, transmit and modem interrupt rates.
.RE

If run in a non-global zone and the pools facility is active, these values
reflect activity on the processors of the processor set of the pool to which
the zone is bound.
.RE

.SH EXAMPLES
.LP
\fBExample 1 \fRViewing System Activity
.sp
.LP
The following example displays today's \fBCPU\fR activity so far:

.sp
.in +2
.nf
example% sar
.fi
.in -2
.sp

.LP
\fBExample 2 \fRWatching System Activity Evolve
.sp
.LP
To watch \fBCPU\fR activity evolve for 10 minutes and save data:

.sp
.in +2
.nf
example% sar -o temp 60 10
.fi
.in -2
.sp

.LP
\fBExample 3 \fRReviewing Disk and Tape Activity
.sp
.LP
To later review disk and tape activity from that period:

.sp
.in +2
.nf
example% sar -d -f temp
.fi
.in -2
.sp

.SH FILES
.ne 2
.na
\fB\fB/var/adm/sa/sa\fIdd\fR\fR\fR
.ad
.RS 20n
daily data file, where \fIdd\fR are digits representing the day of the month
.RE

.SH SEE ALSO
.LP
.BR exec (2),
.BR fork (2),
.BR attributes (7),
.BR iostat (8),
.BR sar (8),
.BR vmstat (8)
.sp
.LP
\fISystem Administration Guide: Advanced Administration\fR
.SH NOTES
.LP
The sum of CPU utilization might vary slightly from 100 because of rounding
errors in the production of a percentage figure.
